Speaking of the hotel that we stayed at… our friend Lynn Sirrine was the one that told me about it. When I first started trying to put our itinerary together for the trip most of the hotel rooms that I came up on internet searches (Hotwire, Orbitz, Travelocity, etc…) were either sold out, or were ridiculously priced out of our budget. So I sent out an SOS email to my email circle of friends and family asking if anyone had any connections or ideas for lodging? And Lynn promptly wrote back that I should try The Five Towns Inn, that it was close to JFK, and that she stayed there frequently when she traveled to NY on business. She also said they put up several flight crews, and that was an indicator of how nice the place was. So I tried them and sure enough, they had vacancies and were very reasonable. Gib and Amber were also able to change their hotel reservations to the same place which made things nice.
If you are ever in the JFK area, stay at the FIVE TOWNS INN.
The staff at the hotel treated us like family… the lobby and rooms were nice, and it was conveniently located near everything. I think it was only 10 miles to Belmont Park from the hotel. I wish we had taken another day to poke around there. It would have been nice for Ansel to see the Statue of Liberty and a few other attractions. But the bottom line was that we were able to fulfill his wish, and he was able to attend the Belmont Stakes. We’re still a little blue that we didn’t get to see a Triple Crown victory, or to see Big Brown give a valiant effort to get the Triple Crown… it’s hard to believe that it was all over so quickly. In the blink of an eye, they were in the home stretch. The whole experience was a fairytale, and I’m so thankful to those who had a hand in making it possible. !!!! There were so many wonderful things that worked out, answers to prayers, that made this trip possible. In the morning, we'll start our the next chapter of our adventure driving up to Cape Cod. Stay tuned :-)
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